Word: scars
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...years it had stood as the symbol of the division of Europe and the world, of Communist suppression, of the xenophobia of a regime that had to lock its people in lest they be tempted by another, freer life -- the Berlin Wall, that hideous, 28-mile-long scar through the heart of a once proud European capital, not to mention the soul of a people. And then -- poof! -- it was gone. Not physically, at least yet, but gone as an effective barrier between East and West, opened in one unthinkable, stunning stroke to people it had kept apart for more...
...Will the experience of Afghanistan leave a scar on the military...
...obvious that there is a scar on the body of our society. Our people condemn the fact that we deployed forces in Afghanistan. They believe it was wrong. But it has also scarred those who participated in the war, especially the young, demobilized from the army. Many say they will never be themselves again. I also participated in the war and was there for 2 1/2 years. I was an older soldier who could endure the scars, but the effect on the young was different...
Americans and Germans alike remember well the day in 1963 when a visiting U.S. President, John Kennedy, gave voice to his feelings about the two-year- old Wall that ran like a jagged scar through Berlin: "Ich bin ein Berliner." His message was more than a metaphoric statement of solidarity with the people of that divided city. It was an appeal to the Wall's Communist architects to tear down the 26-mile-long concrete monstrosity. Today the Wall continues to pierce the hearts of Berliners every bit as effectively as its pipes, barbed wires and other sharp obstacles once...
...Cultural Revolution's aftermath makes the point. Very little effort has ever been spent investigating the question of why so many followed so dastardly a design. Personal accounts of the period's horrors have been written ("scar literature" it is called). But unlike the Germans, who have collectively wrestled with the Holocaust's blackest implications for 40 years, the Chinese appear content to let the past rest...